After accepting the application forms, paid the renewal fees, when they went back to collect their Passports, they were asked about the relations with me, Dr. Ko Ko Gyi. When they replied the truth, their application forms were returned and fees they paid were refunded and told that as they were related to me, there is an order from Naypyidaw to band all the services including Passport renewals for all of my relatives.

By the way, my FB account was locked because of Myanmar Government officials and its Cyber-troopers’ false reports.

I cannot understand when the criminal mass-murderers ABSDF – N officials could be even allowed to enter Myanmar, may be they were moles planted by former Myanmar Military Intelligence Force to penetrate and destroy the Student Rebels.

Although not fair, we could understand that even if they revoke my Passport but it is a clear case of Human Rights Violation if they take action on my family or my far relatives like in-laws who have done nothing against Myanmar Government.

As citizens deeply concerned about the ongoing violence in Burma, we call on you to press the Burmese President to urgently protect the Rohingya using all means necessary, and grant them citizenship and full legal rights when you meet with him this month. We urge you to insist he implement such measures and tackle the impunity of aggressors to stop the violence as a condition of improved trading relations. You have both spoken repeatedly about the need for early action to prevent genocide and crimes against humanity — now is the time to live up to those words.

THE National University of Singa­pore’s (NUS) Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine said that it is investigating tweets containing confidential patient information which caused an uproar after a screenshot was posted online.

The two tweets, posted on April 7 from a final year medical student’s Twitter account, had information about a patient’s pregnancy and abortion history, including a line “Don’t even wna look at this patient”.

LONDON, April 11 — Rudeness and throwing insults are cutting online friendships short with a survey yesterday showing people are getting ruder on social media and two in five users have ended contact after a virtual altercation.

As social media usage surges, the survey found so has incivility with 78 per cent of 2,698 people reporting an increase in rudeness online with people having no qualms about being less polite virtually than in person.

One in five people have reduced their face-to-face contact with someone they know in real life after an online run-in. (more…)

YANGON, Myanmar — Hundreds of angry farmers heckled and walked out on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese politician and Nobel laureate, during a visit on Thursday to villages in central Myanmar that might be displaced by a copper mine. (more…)

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